Fiennes: Return to the Nile

Images from the Fiennes cousins' Egyptian adventure

Exploring the Pyramids of Giza. The Great Pyramid is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing.

Keeping the ageing Land Rover Defender going was a concern – but keep going it did.

The Pyramids of Giza, outside Cairo. Joe says: "Ran had to ignore the pyramids [on the 1969 expedition.] It was a joy seeing him all these years later, having done this before but under time constraints, actually take the time to appreciate it."

Ran: "I found that [Joe] was just the most excellent companion, and good fun. I was immensely impressed."

The sarcophagus and mummy unearthed at Al Minya. Return to the Nile was the first production able to film in the newly-discovered tomb.

Ran and Joe take part in some local-flavoured street pugilism in Episode 2.

While there were no hovercrafts involved on this trip, Joe tries his hand at handling a quintessentially Nile fallucca.

The great temple of Abu Simbel. In a remarkable feat of engineering, the temple was moved, block by block, to make way for the building of the Aswan Dam in 1967.

Joe: "A lot of Egypt depends on tourism as a part of their economy. So anyone who wants to go, go."